Lixiang Lake Xinghu Peninsula Experience area

The Star Lake Peninsula experience zone at CITIC Lixiang Lake in Nanchuan, Chongqing, designed by A+D Design's First Comprehensive Division for client CITIC Chongqing, occupies 11,890 square meters within the Lixiang Lake scenic area. The project responds to a post-pandemic desire for second homes in nature, and treats the site as a high-quality resort landscape that renews the green, restorative journey of Lixiang Lake. Multiple early field surveys convinced the team that the design must respect the original landform and preserve the natural character, turning the valley into a destination for nature-based wellness and quiet retreat. Following a boundary-less, light-touch philosophy, the design brings mountain, forest and lake into the project, erasing the line between visitor and landscape and staging a deeply natural resort experience. The Valley Living Room opens onto the mountain forest with guiding curved walls at the entry that evoke layered streams and stone shadows; a winding path climbs the slope past a dry stream and rows of tall metasequoia and Chinese swamp cypress, light filtering through as if into a forest sanctuary. A courtyard tea room sits beneath the overhanging eaves, birdsong filling the air and corridors stretching through shifting light. Behind the mountains, layered planting builds a private ecological green mirror; in the forest, cypress, streams and undergrowth produce what the team calls a modern forest life, natural, hotel-like, artistic and resort. Returning to the bay, the design faces roughly 3,300 mu of protected water and 260 mu of wetland ecology; the Hazy Crane Bay shoreline preserves the original banks in stone-slab, stone-imitating and wood-grain tiles so that the built edge blends with the lake. Winding floating bridges link discrete coves, and terraced steps planted with cypress and flowering species descend toward the water, shifting mood as visitors move from slope to lake surface. Multiple public rooms along the shore host gathering, activity and connection; on the lake islands, camping under stars, cycling, fishing and paddleboarding project an open-ended family life. The result is a place where visitors absorb the healing energy of the green landscape and return to themselves.